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A military spokesperson told CBC News: "The Department of National Defence has been informed of the strange noises emanating in the Fury and Hecla Strait area, and the Canadian Armed Forces are taking the appropriate steps to actively investigate the situation."

The news site added that George Qulaut, another politician, had also commented on the lack of local wildlife.

He said: "That passage is a migratory route for bowhead whales, and also bearded seals and ringed seals. There would be so many in that particular area.

"This summer there was none."

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Some have claimed that a nuclear submarine could be responsible for the odd noises

Whilst the military suggested that submarines aren't a likely cause of the unnerving noise, they also couldn't rule the possibility out.

Other theories have blamed local mining firm Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, but the company denied that it was responsible.

And some have blamed environmental activist group Greenpeace for the disturbance, claiming that the organisation may be deliberately scaring wildlife away from the hunting ground using sonar.

But Greenpeace also denied that it was responsible for the strange noise, leaving the source of the humming unexplained.

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Some theorists have blamed the disturbances on sonar activity by Greenpeace or a mining company

Wilder speculation has blamed the noises on a secret military base or an abandoned nuclear submarine, whilst one theorist went so far as to blame the humming on a giant sea monster.

Meanwhile, commenters have also pinned the noise on tectonic action, the Earth's natural vibrations and, of course, alien activity.